Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-26
NORTH CAROLINA.
xxws MOTIFS GATHERED FROM vARI.
Gus POINTS AT RALEIGH.
Railroad Matters Religious Informa.
ton Events Of the Week Personals
and Brief Mention.
Special tolornm TO The Dispatch

RALEIGH, n. c., June 2S.-Work on the
extension Of the GAINESVILLE and Williams
ton railway begins Monday.
Bishop Lyman writes that he expects TO
be home in July. and proposes to hold or
dinalion services here July Sd In Christ
church. He has nearly recovered his
health.
TuE WILSON NORMAL. SCHOOL.
This school, the pioneer Of the summer
nOTmslS This season. has over 200 persons
in attendance. and will have more when the
Teachers Ass, mbly ends. The school Is hard
at work, and has thourogh programme.
The State Superintendent Of Public In
struction will visit all the normal schools In
turn.
PERSONALS.
Bishop Key presidcs this year at Trinity
College District Methodist Conference,
which meets August lst.
Dr. c. l.. Cook. formerly Of Wilkes
county. Is now In Utah, "A fulhhedged
Norman, and \ preacher Of that faith.
Cook was twice a Republican candidate
for Congress in the Eighth district.
Reports received here show an improve
mcnt IN the condition OF ex.Licutenaut.
Governor james l.. Robinson. who has for
weeks been sick With Bnght's disease at
his home. IN Macon county.
President hcknnon, Of Davidson Col.
lccc, Is taking rest al GoldsboTo' IN the
company Of some special friends. HIS
health Is very poor. lie will be at MOrehead
later.
SOME EVENTS OF THIS WEEK.
On Wednesday and Thursday the COM
mCnccment 81 Chowan Baptist Female H.
stitute, ut NurirecsbOro', will be held, Rev.
Baylus Cadc. OF Lousburg, preaching the
sermon, aud Rev. w. Il. Royal, of Wake
Forest. delivering the annual address. On
Wednesday the Teachers Assembly closes
its session. and on thursday it leaves More
bead on it, special excursion TO Washing
ton, ID. c.. TO be absent week.
The annual meeting OF the stockholders
Of the Atlantic and North Carolina railway
will be held at Morehead.
On Friday Governor Scales will deliver
.n address Before the school at Wilson.
On Saturday there will be preliminary
meeting Of tobacco.men at Greensboro 10
rake action in regard to the proposed State
tobacco exposition.
RAILWAY NEWS.
The Cspc.Fear and YadkIn.Vallcy road
is now completed TO q point mile from
Germanton, Stokes county, halfway be-
tween Greensboro and Mount Airy.
Roanoke, Va, TO Winston, n. g., Is to be-
gin IN two weeks, 1t IS stated.
Considerably over half OF the Raleigh
and CASTOR road has been ballaSted with
granite, and II is becoming one Of the best
roads in the entire South.
ALL SORTS or NEWS.
The Greenville Guards, OF Pitt county,
go TO MOrthead for an encampment in Au-
gust. The Sampson Light Infantry 90 into
camp in a few days on the csast near Will
miBgtOn.
Carolina Beach, the new summer.resOrt
for the Capc-Ftar section, is being made
very attractive.
II l. asserted that frost was seen in Per.
son county as late as the 10Th instant. This
beats all the records.
The tobacco crop in Person county is said
10 De the worst, 20 Tar a, appearances so, in
ten wears.
The Peabody Normal College, at Nash
VILE, Tennessee, gives North Carolina
eight scholarships. These are generally all
taken. Johns Hopkins sets apart certain
scholarships for this state, yet, strange to
say. most OF them are untaken; 50 the
holder Of one Of them says.
Ii j. said that the story published In
some northern papers in the shape OF
telegram from Reidsyille narrating the
killing 10y preacher REV. George Pittard)
Of a juvenile baseball player Is an abso-
lutte fal,ehoOd. IL caught some Of the State
papers.
The excessive mortality among children
which 20 sadly marked later May and early
June in some sections Of the state has dis
appeared or abated since hot weather set in.
s very large number Of children died.
Ii appears 10 be very difficult TO appre-
hnd the Wil,On-county murderer, Caesar
Nootcn. over hall a dozen negroes have
been arrested by mistake and taken to
Wilson, only 10 De discovered not TO be
the person wanted. 1t is now thought,
however. that the right man has been ar
rested at Hamlet. near the South Carolina
line.
TUESDAY will be "cOunty-supernten
ents' day. al the Teachers Assembly.
Rev. ". :. Long, county sVperintendt 1t OF
public instruction Of Alamance, will pre-
side. number OF superintendent VII
De present.
WORK on the oxford and Clark'ville rail-
road begins IN few d4ys.